Do not work primarily for money; do your duty to patients first and let the money follow; our life is short, we don't live twice; the whirlwind will pick up the leaves and spin them, but then it will drop them and they will form a pile.

To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone - just plain going at it, in pain and delight. To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again, and once more, and over and over...

The reality is that changes are coming... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over.

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women